Profit & Loss
Profit & Loss
1 1
(C) 33 % (D) 25 % 12%
3 2
(A) 24% (B) 40%
14. A shopkeeper purchases some (C) 60% (D) 15%
choclates @ Rs. 1 per 25. For getting 19. A man pruchases some thing at 4500
25% profit, how many choclates will Rs. He sells its 2/3 parts at 6% profit,
he sell in 1 rupee? so what will the percentage loss on
1 25 remaining things that there is no loss
1 or profit in whole deal?
25% 4500
(A) 25 (B) 27 2/3 6%
(C) 15 (D) 20
15. A man purchases 11 chocolates in 1
rupee. For getting 10% profit, how many
(A) 12% Loss
choclates will he sells in 1 rupee?
(B) 15% Loss
1 11 1
(C) 20% Loss
10% (D) 15% Profit
20. If a shopkeeper doubles the selling 24. The cost price of 2 types of tea are 180
price of a thing. If he got 15% profit on Rs./kg & 200 Rs./kg. If he mixes 5:3
starting/actual selling price then how of both types of Tea and sells the
much profit he gain according to double mixture at 210 Rs./Kg. then what will
selling price? be profit percentage?
180
200 5 : 3
15% 210
38. 30%, 20%, 10% consecutive discount 42. Two watches are bought in `4080 and
are equal to. sold it in such a way so that the selling
30%, 20% 10% price will be equal. First watch sold at
15% loss and 2nd at 19% profit. Find
(A) 50% (B) 49.6% cost price of the watch which was sold
(C) 49.4% (D) 51% at 19% profit.
39. A milkman purchased some milk. If he `4080
sell it a 4 Rs. per ltr. get loss of 100
Rs. While on selling it 5 Rs./ltr. he 15% 19%
get 150 Rs as profit. Find the quantity 19%
of milk purchased?
4
(A) `1200 (B) `1650
100 (C) `1700 (D) `1550
5 150 43. A man buys some oranges at the rate
of 5 for Rs. 1 and same number of or-
(A) 300 ltr. (B) 250 ltr. anges @ 4 for Rs.1. He sold all of them
(C) 200 ltr. (D) 350 ltr. @ 9 for Rs. 2. During the whole trans-
40. A person sell two Scooters at 1620 Rs. action he incurs a loss of Rs. 30. Find
If cost price of first Scooter is equal to the number of oranges that he pur-
the S.P. of another Scooter. There is chase.
a 20% loss on first scooter and 1 5 1
1 4 2 9
33 % profit on another. Find the total
3 30
profit or loss percentage.
1620 (A) 5400 (B) 10,400
(C) 7200 (D) 10800
44. A man sells 3 article at same price. 1st
20%
on 20% profit, 2nd on 10% loss, 3rd on
1 25% loss. During the whole transaction
33 %
3 he bears a loss of Rs. 120. Find the sell-
ing price of each article?
(A) Rs.70 (B) Rs. 60 3
(C) Rs. 45 (D) Rs. 50 20% 10%
41. A sell a house worth rupees 3 lakh to 25% 120
B at 10% profit. While B again sell
this house to A at 4% loss. Find the
(A) 240 (B) 432 (C) 864 (D) 124
overall result
A 300000 10 Practice Exercise
B B A
1. C.P. of 30 product is equal to S.P. of
4 25 products. Find the percentage proift
or loss.
(A) Rs. 13200 Loss to A 30 25
(B) Rs. 13200 Profit to A
(C) Rs. 16800 Profit to A
(A) 10% Proift (B) 15% Proift
(D) Rs.16800 Loss to A
(C) 20% Proift (D) 25% Proift
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29. A person gets 60 Rs. more if it was is 14%. If he want to earn 8% profit.
sold on 20% profit instead of 20% loss. Find the selling price of bicycle?
Then find out the cost price of the 2850
product? 14% 8%
20% 20%
60 (A) Rs.2600 (B) Rs.2700
(C) Rs.2800 (D) Rs.3000
(A) Rs.200 (B) Rs.150 35. On selling a dozen pens, a shopkeeper
(C) Rs.140 (D) Rs.120 earns profit equal to S.P. of 4 pens.
30. A sell a product to B at 25% profit, B Find proift percentage?
sell this to C at 20% profit, C sell it 4
to D at 10% profit. If D purchased at
330 Rs. Find the C.P. of A?
A B 25% B (A) 50% (B) 40%
C 20% C D 10%
1 1
D 330 (C) 33 % (D) 31 %
3 4
A
36. A person pruchased lemon at 2 on 1
(A) Rs.200 (B) Rs.250
Rs. While he sell them at 5 on 3 Rs.
(C) Rs.275 (D) Rs.290
Find his proift percentage?
31. If profit of a manufacturer is 10%,
wholeseller profit is 15% while profit 1 2
of ratailer is 25%. Find the C.P of 3 5
product if retail price of product is
1265 Rs.? (A) 10% (B) 15%
10% (C) 20% (D) 25%
15% 25% 37. A person sell a table at 5% loss. If he
have sell it 80 Rs. more his profit
could be 5%. Find the C.P. of a Table?
1265
5%
(A) Rs.700 (B) Rs.750
(C) Rs.800 (D) Rs.900 80 5%
32. On selling a product, a person gains
25% of selling price as profit. Find his (A) Rs.1600 (B) Rs.1200
actual profit percentage? (C) Rs.1000 (D) Rs.800
38. A bookseller sell a book at 10% profit.
If he had bought it at 4% less and sell
25%
at 6 Rs. more, his profit would have
(A) 20% (B) 25% 3
been 18 % . Find the cost profit of that
4
2 1
(C) 16 % (D) 33 % book?
3 3 10%
33. If ratio of C.P. and S.P. in 10:11. Find
profit percentage? 4%
3
6 18 %
10 : 11 4
(A) 8% (B) 10%
(C) 11% (D) 15% (A) 130 Rs. (B) 140 Rs.
34. On selling a bycycle at 2850 Rs., profit (C) 150 Rs. (D) 160 Rs.
1 960
2
(A) 16 % (B) 20%
(A) 40% (B) 4% 3
1 1 2
(C) 4 % (D) None of these (C) 33 % (D) 66 %
6 3 3
41. A seller of cloths sell his half cloths 45. By selling an Almira for Rs. 2576, a
at 20% profit, while half the part of man gains 12%. If he had bought it
remaining at 20% loss and remaining Rs. 100 less. Find the profit percent.
at C.P. Find overall percentage profit 2576
or loss? 12% 100
20% 20% 1 1 1 9
(A) 11 % (B) 13 % (C 17 % (D) 17 %
9 3 11 11
25%
(A) 18% (B) 20% (C) 22%(D) 25%
58. A trader buy an article of MRP Rs. (A) 20% (B) 30%
25000 with the successive discounts (C) 50% (D) 60%
of 20% and 5%. he spend Rs. 1000 on 63. If 60% decrement is SP of an Article
it's repairing and sells at Rs. 25000. then gets 10% loss on C.P. What is
What is the profit or loss? the starting profit?
25000 60%
20% 5% 10%
1000
25000 (A) 70 (B) 80 (C) 100 (D) 125
64. A Shopkeeper earns 20% profit at
(A) 25% Loss (B) 25% Profit buying time and 30%. profit at selling
(C) 10% Profit (D) 10% Loss time.
59. Sellling price of two articles are equal 20%
on one he gains 30% and other he 30%
loses 30%. How much does he gain or (A) 50% (B) 36%
lose? (C) 56% (D) 40%
65. By selling 12 copies in Rs. 1800 the
30% 30% profit is equal to the C.P. of 3 copies,
what is the C.P. of one copy.
(A) 9% Loss (B) 11% Loss 12 1800 3
(C) 15% Loss (D) 10% Loss
60. A Shopkeeper speculate that his loss
is 20% of S.P. Then what is the real (A) 120 (B) 150
loss percentage? (C) 1200 (D) 1500
66. A person buy agricultural land in
20% 360000. He sell 1/3 part at 20%. loss
and 2/5 part at 25% profit. At what
price he should sell remaining so that
1 he earn 10% profit?
(A) 33 % (B) 30%
3 360000
2 20%
(C) 16 % (D) 40% 2/5 25%
3
61. A Shopkeeper speculate that his profit
is 20% of S.P. then what is the basic 10%
profit? (A) 100000 (B) 115000
(C) 120000 (D) 125000
20%
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67. A trader earns a profit of 20%. After 71. By selling 12 copies in 1800 the profit
giving a discount of 10% at advertising is equal to the CP of 3 copies. What is
price of a Scooter, if he gets profit of the cost price of the copy?
Rs. 7500. Then what is the advertising 12 1800 3
price of Scooter?
10%
20% (A) 120 (B) 150
7500 (C) 1200 (D) 1500
72. By selling 14 watches of similar cost
price at the rate of Rs. 450 per watch
(A) 45000 (B) 47000 earn profit equal to the CP of 4 watches
(C) 50000 (D) 52000 then what is the CP of one watch?
68. A man sold some articles at 10% profit. 14 450
In this way Earned total money by 4
selling he spend for buying again
similar articles. At this time he gets (A) 350 (B) 360
10% loss by selling. Find profit or loss. (C) 375 (D) 400
10% 73. A man pruchase 76 Cows and sells 20
Cows at 15% profit, 40 Cows at 19%
profit and remaining 16 Cows at 25%
profit. He gets total proift Rs. 6570.
10%
Then the C.P. of every Cow.
76 20 15%
(A) 1% Loss
40 19% 16
(B) 1% Profit
(C) No profit no Loss 25% 6570
(D) 2% Loss
69. If total CP of 73 articles of similar (A) 450 (B) 425
price is Rs. 5110 and total SP of 89 (C) 420 (D) 400
articles is Rs. 5607 then total profit or 74. A person purchase two cycles in 1600
loss will be- and sells at 10% profit and other at
73 20% profit. If he sells first one at 20%
5110 89 profit and other at 10% profit. Then he
get 5 Rs more. What is the difference
5607
between the cost price of the two
(A) 15% Loss
cycles?
(B) 10% Profit
1600
(C) 10% Loss
(D) 15% Profit 10% 20%
70. By using unfair measurements a 20% 10%
Shopkeeper gains 20% while 5
pruchasing and 30% while selling. Find
total profit percentage?
20%
(A) 50 (B) 40
30% (C) 25 (D) 75
(A) 50% (B) 36%
(C) 56% (D) 40%
75. A trader fixed selling price of his 79. What is the maximum percentage of
articles 700 after adding 40% profit at discount which any trader can give at
his cost price. Because at this price, marked price so that he don't earn no
sells are low. So find selling price at profit no loss, when he marked 40%
10% profit? more price on his article.
40%
700
10% 40%
(A) 60% (B) No discount
(A) 450 (B) 490 (C) 33.5% (D) 28.5%
(C) 500 (D) 550 80. A Shopkeeper marked 15% more price
76. A wholesaler sells 12 articles at the then basis price. By increasing in
price of 9 articles to retailer. If retailer demand he increased price by 10%.
sells then at market price the find What prercent profit he gain?
percentage profit. 15%
12
9 10%
65% 1
(A) 21 % (B) 20%
20% 25% 2
1
(C) 17% (D) 17 %
(A) 20% (B) 55% 2
(C) 10% (D) 25% 88. A sells an article to B at the profit 1/
85. In a shop there is 10% discount 5 of C.P. B sells it to C at 20% profit.
proposal on a fan. It sold in Rs. 846 by If C sells it in 600 and gets loss 1/6
giving 6% discount at already of his cost price. Then what is the
discounted price. Then what is the cost price of A?
initial marked price of Fan? A B 1/5
10% B C 20%
C 600
6% 846 1/6 A
(A) I (B) II
1 1 (C) III (D) IV
(A) 33 % (B) 33 % 94. A person purchase two chairs in 900.
3 2
Sell one of them 4/5 of its cost and
1 others 5/4 of cost he gets total profit
(C) 33% (D) 34 %
3 of Rs. 90. What is the cost of less
91. A trader gets 10% loss by selling 80% price chair.
on marked price of an article. If he 900
sell it at 95% of marked price then 4/5
what is the percentage profit?
5/4
80%
90
10%
95%
(A) 360 (B) 400 (C) 420 (D) 300
95. By selling 100 oranges a seller earn
(A) 6.9 (B) 5 profit equal to selling price of 20
(C) 5.9 (D) 12.5 oranges. What is the percentage profit?
92. A shopkeeper in his annual selling 100 20
sells his thing on 50% discount. In
the end of the last week at that month
he gives extra discount of 40%. Thus (A) 20 (B) 25 (C) 30 (D) 32
the starting rate of a shirt is x Rs. 96. 60% of C.P. is equal to the 50% of S.P.
Then what will the price in last week. of an article. Then what is the
percentage profit or loss at cost price?
60%
50%
50%
40%
x 2
(A) 20% Loss (B) 16 % Proift
3
(A) 90% of x (B)70% of x (C) 20% Proift (D) 10% Loss
(C) 30% of x (D)10% of x 97. A shopkeeper sells sugar such that
93. Any retailer gives following option to the selling price of 950 gram sugar is
buyer on any article. equal to the cost price of 1 kg. sugar.
I. To successive discount of 10% What is the percentage profit?
II. Any discount of 12% then 8%
III. two successive discount at 15% 950 1
and 5%
V. Discount of 20%
In which scheme selling price will be
minimum? 5 1
(A) 5 (B) 5
19 5
1
(C) 5 (D) 4
19
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–10% 11 110
+10%
90 99
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10. 20%
1
A 30% B C %P = ×100 = 25% Ans.
4
13 4
x× × = 520 17. [Link]. = 1850
10 5 A B
x = Rs. 500 Ans. CP SP
11. 66SP = 66CP + 22SP 100 100
44SP = 66CP
CP : SP = 4 : 6 125
SP = 85 x× = 100
2 100
×100 = 50% profit Ans. x = 80 CP
4 [Link] = 100 + 80 = 180
12. 75SP = 75CP + 15CP [Link] = 100 + 85 = 185
75SP = 90CP
CP : SP = 5 : 6 1850
CP = ×180 = 1800
1 185
×100 = 20% profit Ans. Profit = 1850–1800 = 50 Ans.
5
13. A B 4800
80 160 18.
x× = (960–x)×
100 100 2/5 3/5
x = 1920–2x
3x = 1920 2 3
×25 + ×x = 19
x = 640 5 5
960 – 640 = 320 50 + 3x = 95
CP = 640, 320 3x = 45 x = 15 Ans.
14. CP = Rs. 1750 19. 380
90 115
x× + (1750–x) = 1750
100 100
2/3 1/3
90x + 201250 – 115x = 175000
25x = 26250 2 1
x = 1050 ×15 + ×x = 10
3 3
1750–x = 1750–1050 = 700
x = 60% Ans.
CP 20.
4800
1000 gm SP
1000 Rs. 1000
5 2
(14%) (–x)
15. 7 7
200 5 2
New CP 800 %P= 100 ×14 – (x) = 0
800 7 7
%Profit = 25% 2x
16. CP SP 10 = x = 35%
7
4 5
160 450
21. CP = ×100 = 200 27. SP = ×125 = 750
80 75
200 720
28. SP = ×125 = 1200
25% 75
250 60
29. CP = ×100 = 150
diff. = 250–160 = 90 Rs. 40
22. Buy Sell 1/4 1/5 1/10
P P 30.
A 25% B 20% C 10% D
12 8
8P 12P 5 6 11
x× × × = 330
4 5 10
4P
%P = ×100 = 50% Ans. x = 5 × 4 × 10 = 200
8P
31.
23.
10% 15% 25%
120 90 102
x× + (20000–x)× = 20,000× 110 115 125
100 100 100 2× × × = 1265
120x + 180000 – 90x = 2040000 100 100 100
30x = 240000 x = 2 × 100 × 4 = 800 Ans.
x = 8000 Ans. 1 P
32. SP = 25% =
4 SP
A 3 B 10% 1 C CP = 4–1 = 3
24. 15% 10 CP SP
20 3 4
517.50
1 1
23 9 517.50 Profit% = ×100 = 33 % Ans.
3 3
A× × =
20 10 100 33. CP SP
x = 25×20 = 500 Ans. 10 11
25. CP SP 1
x y ×100 = 10% Ans.
10
90 2
x× y 2850
100 3 34. SP = ×108 = 2700 Ans.
114
CP x 20 35. 12SP = 12CP + 4SP
SP y = 27 8SP = 12CP
CP : SP = 2 : 3
7
%P = ×100 = 35% Ans. 1
20 ×100 = 50% Ans.
2
26. CP SP
20 21
1
%Profit = ×100 = 5% Ans.
20
-4% 4 6 110
SP = 5000× = 5500
3 100
18 %
4 P = 5500 – 5000 = 500
96 114
+18
500
= 5 kg Ans.
6 100
CP = ×100 = Rs. 150 Ans.
4 43. = 20
39. 100SP = 100CP + 20SP [Link] 100×20 = 2000/-
80SP = 100CP
CP : SP = 4 : 5
1 50×24 50×24
%P = ×100 = 25% Ans. SP = 1200 + 1400 = 2600
4
Profit = 2600 – 2000 = 600
CP 100 × 25 = 2500
40. 1000 Rs. +10% SP diff = 2600–2500 = 100
1000 gm 1000 = 20 Ans.
44. 20CP = 15SP
CP : SP = 3 : 4
40
%P= 100 1 1
960 960 %P = ×100 = 33 % Ans.
3 3
25 1 2576
=4 % 45. 100
×100 = 2300 2200
6 6 112
41. = 100 diff. = 2576 – 2200 = 376
1 = 100 376 1
= 100×100 = Rs. 10000 %P = ×100 = 17 % Ans.
2200 11
4%
46. 16%
Rs.20
20%
20
CP = ×100 = 500 Ans.
4
10 2 90 (100 y)
47. % Loss = = 1% Ans. 55. 3200× × = 2448
100 100
100
100 – y = 85
1 y = 15% Ans.
48. SP = CP + SP ×
4 120 400
56. MRP = ×100 =
1 90 3
SP – SP × = CP 20% dis.
4
3SP = 4CP 400 80 320
× =
CP : SP = 3 : 4 3 100 3
1 1 320
%P = ×100 = 33 % Ans. SP =
3
3 3
CP = 100
49. Let CP = 100
20 20 2
100 % Profit = ×100 = =6 % Ans.
MRP = ×100 = 125 3 100 3 3
80
57. MRP = 4800
88 90
SP = 125 × = 110, CP = 100 SP = 4800× = 4320
100 100
10 4320
%P = ×100 = 10% Ans. CP = ×100 = 4000
100 108
without dis. % profit
25
50. x × = 400 800
100 ×100 = 20% Profit Ans.
400
x = 1600
58. –20%, –5% disc.
1600
=5 Ans. 20 5
320 T. disc = –20 – 5 + = 24%
100
51. CP = 100 MRP = 120 MRP = 25000
24 20% 76
96 CP = 25000 × = Rs. 19000
100
4% = 1000
20%
20% profit 450
52. 540 CP = 19000 + 1000 = 20000
SP = Rs. 25000
90
MRP × = 540 5000
100 % Profit = ×100 = 25% Ans.
20000
MRP = 600 Ans.
302
90 112 59. % loss = = 9% Ans.
53. MRP × = CP × 100
100 100
CP : MRP 1 loss
60.
45 : 56 Ans. 5 SP
54. MRP = 50 CP = 5+1 = 6
CP SP
80 125
50× = CP × 6 5
100 100
CP = Rs. 32 Ans. 1 2
%loss = ×100 = 16 % Ans.
6 3